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Columbia Cardiology Launches New Mitral & Tricuspid Center

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Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s Division of Cardiology has announced its launch of the Mitral & Tricuspid Center. Tricuspid and mitral valves are debilitating conditions that can lead to arrhythmias, hypertension, and heart failure.

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Smidt Heart Institute Physicians Advance Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement

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Physicians in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have pioneered using a catheter-based approach to treat patients with tricuspid valve disease. The first 100 minimally invasive tricuspid procedures were done as part of the TRISCEND II clinical trial. Image by Getty. Image by Getty. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Novel Tricuspid Valve Procedure Improves Patients' Quality of Life and Health Status

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milla1cf Fri, 06/21/2024 - 20:10 June 21, 2024 — UC San Francisco interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed the health system’s first commercial transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedure using the Edwards EVOQUE system. by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Edwards’ EVOQUE Valve Replacement System First Transcatheter Therapy to Earn FDA Approval for Tricuspid Valve

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Photo: Edwards Lifesciences milla1cf Fri, 02/02/2024 - 09:33 February 2, 2024 — Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced the company’s EVOQUE tricuspid valve replacement system is the first transcatheter therapy to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the treatment of tricuspid regurgitation (TR).

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Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center Treats First Patient in New Jersey with Edwards’ EVOQUE Tricuspid Valve Replacement

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milla1cf Thu, 04/25/2024 - 17:21 April 25, 2024 — Atlantic Health System ’s Morristown Medical Center treated the first patient in New Jersey using Edwards Lifesciences EVOQUE tricuspid valve replacement, the first transcatheter therapy to receive U.S. According to National Institutes of Health an estimated 1.6 million people in the U.S.

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Columbia Cardiology Launches New Mitral and Tricuspid Center

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Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s Division of Cardiology has announced its launch of the Mitral & Tricuspid Center. Tricuspid and mitral valves are debilitating conditions that can lead to arrhythmias, hypertension, and heart failure.

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Edwards Lifesciences to Acquire Innovalve

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an early-stage transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) company, following its initial investment in 2017. Combined with Edwards’ existing mitral innovations, the acquisition enhances the company’s TMVR technologies to address large unmet structural heart patient needs and support sustainable long-term growth.